Laspector
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Research man, research!!
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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Research man, research!!
p51
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Watch the original, "The Blob." Steve McQueen was almost 30, playing a teen!
Zombie_61
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That used to bother me when I was much younger. "That guy looks like he should be in college, not high school." Now that I'm in my 50s they all look like babies to me, so I don't care any more. :lol
Riceball
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Watching the Godzilla trailer at Wondercon last week reminded me of how I'm tired I am of seeing planes and helos attacking giant monsters and like at what amounts to effectively point blank range where they're vulnerable to said giant monsters instead of attacking them at stand off ranges of thousands of meters where they can't be touched. I guess it's more exciting to see
aircraft doing fly bys and risking getting swiped at or chomped on but it's just so blatantly unrealistic that all but the most unknowledgable has to realize how unrealistic it is. Who in their right mind would ever attack anything like a giant monster within its arm's reach when you can just as easily attack from so far that it can barely even see you much less touch you; at the very least the writers should try to come up with a plausible reason for why they would need to attack from such close ranges.
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aircraft doing fly bys and risking getting swiped at or chomped on but it's just so blatantly unrealistic that all but the most unknowledgable has to realize how unrealistic it is. Who in their right mind would ever attack anything like a giant monster within its arm's reach when you can just as easily attack from so far that it can barely even see you much less touch you; at the very least the writers should try to come up with a plausible reason for why they would need to attack from such close ranges.
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Jon Kelley
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Why do they keep rebuilding Tokyo, anyhow?
IGMC...
wolfwalker
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So Vin Diesel can make another F&F Tokyo Drift?
One of the things that bothers me is actors who are supposed to be soldiers firing a handgun in a two handed grip but the sights are at cleavage level(all right usually a hot shot down female pilot/super model) but can still.make a 200 yard head shot. Guess they practice more.
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One of the things that bothers me is actors who are supposed to be soldiers firing a handgun in a two handed grip but the sights are at cleavage level(all right usually a hot shot down female pilot/super model) but can still.make a 200 yard head shot. Guess they practice more.
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Here's a good one in war films: germans/russians/whatever not speaking their native language. It's Star Trek all over again
indeed, then he made a horrific "Terminator" spoof film.
:lol :facepalm my goodness
Amen to that. It's the same all over the world
indeed, then he made a horrific "Terminator" spoof film.
:lol :facepalm my goodness
Amen to that. It's the same all over the world
Riceball
Master Member
Another thing that I'm tired of seeing is when a character needs some blood for something, either to seal a blood oath, or to activate mcguffin, or whaterver they always take a knife and slice the palm of their hands and then act like it's not even as bad a paper cut. I don't know about you but the last thing I'd do to draw blood would be slice the palm of my hand and if I did I certainly don't think that I'd be shrugging it off like it was nothing, I'm sure I'd have a hard time holding or doing anything with the cut hand and I'd probably be making it known that my hand freaking hurts like hell because I was stupid and sliced it with a knife to get a little blood.
Reelo
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Very true. Especially since the palm is very flexible, the wound would take a long time to close decently and it would hurt for a long time whenever you flexed your hand.
My uneducated guess for least harmful or discomforting place to draw blood from would be the deltoid, where you get your vaccines.
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Jon Kelley
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Then don't watch the four eps of "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" that BBC put out - Dirk just draws on the walls. Case gets solved, he gets out a paint roller to "erase" his work and start anew! (That said, it was actually rather fun to watch the series, and I really wish BBC had kept it going. Spun off neatly from the original, I think - the pilot episode was largely derived from the first Dirk Gently novel, but had just enough spun into it that I still found myself going "Huh? Whazzat?" a few times...)
Jon Kelley
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I had to do that once, overseas. Interestingly enough, the "tradition" involved nicking the inner right forearm just above the wrist - then you clasped each other in the "Medieval handshake" grip (gripping just above the wrist) and then sliding the grip to disengage. You got the other guy's blood on your palm, and mixed it away from the cut. And, it didn't get in the way when you did other things - you only had to cut yourself just enough to bleed. The scar itself has come in handy a few times since then - gotten me protections and favours that I otherwise wouldn't have gotten (and certainly didn't expect.) It's a small scar, but I'd really rather not go into how or why I have it, tho...
p51
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WW2 movies where even the lowest solider knows exactly what an atomic bomb is, even before one gets dropped. The beginning of the Wolverine movie drove me f-ing nuts that he alone knew exactly what that B-29 (flying way lower than it did with its escorts in real life) was going to drop and what it'd do. The guy was in a POW enclosure for god knows how long, how the living hell could he have known what was gonna happen?
Yet, so many movies show it. Nobody ever asks, "A what kind of bomb? Atomic? What does that mean?" when told an a-bomb got dropped...
Yet, so many movies show it. Nobody ever asks, "A what kind of bomb? Atomic? What does that mean?" when told an a-bomb got dropped...
Rotwang
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The super-charismatic, genius level serial killer with a talent for the most complex baroque plans that the audience starts to root for.
Explosions that have no shockwaves, the hero is in a sealed room with a massive bomb, he hides behind a table so the deadly flames can't touch him and he walks away without a scratch. In real life he'd be smeared all over the wall like peanut butter.
Gently tapping a chain with a sword, or any other metal object will instantly snap it.
The mild-mannered main character who hardly ever threw a punch in their entire life not only acquires superhuman strength, speed and agility but instantly gains a full set of complex martial arts skills as well.
The "Jon Snow", the perpetually clueless newbie who has no idea what kind of world he got into yet never learns and adapt to the situation no matter how long he's into it.
Powered armour completely negates any form of impact and suspends inertia.
Archers keeping somebody under shot, holding their bows drawn for extended periods of time without so much as flinching.
Two knights in full plate armour trying to kill each other with regular swords, whereas in real life they needed maces, two-handed warhammers and poleaxes to do some damage.
The hero who effortlessly skewers somebody in full armour with a nearly blunt weapon.
Ancient and medieval weapons redesigned to make them look weird and exotic and renders them completely useless in real life.
Period pieces where everybody is ostentatiously lighting up to remind us that this is the "olden days" where people, children and pets smoked like chimneys.
Remakes or adaptations where characters are reversed to make them more "modern, edgy and interesting", but end up being complete ******** and jerks.
Nobody is a decent, well-meaning human being any more, all "heroes" start off as growling, misanthropic jerks with a dark tragic past drowning in an ocean of blood and pathos, but are usually coaxed and goaded into doing the right thing by the female protagonist/love interest.
The old "wise one" who talks in convoluted riddles and never provides a straight informative answer, yet nobody has a problem with that.
The villain of the story is horribly cursed, giving him incredible supernatural powers often at little or no actual cost.
The female "one shot, one kill" type sniper/archer/assassin.
The WWII British officer who tells an American something has to be done by the book, is prohibited or is impossible and ends up killing a bunch of good GI's, so that the Americans have to throw out the book and do it their way.
Soldiers who discard their helmets as soon as the fight starts because the audience might get confused. Ditto for period films where any form of hat is banned.
French people who are either intellectuals with refined tastes or complete country bumpkins with a moustache and a beret.
Trying to pass off a Czech 16th century early baroque building for a 12th century English or French court.
Fantasy films where the stakes are never anything less than saving the entire world from oblivion.
Explosions that have no shockwaves, the hero is in a sealed room with a massive bomb, he hides behind a table so the deadly flames can't touch him and he walks away without a scratch. In real life he'd be smeared all over the wall like peanut butter.
Gently tapping a chain with a sword, or any other metal object will instantly snap it.
The mild-mannered main character who hardly ever threw a punch in their entire life not only acquires superhuman strength, speed and agility but instantly gains a full set of complex martial arts skills as well.
The "Jon Snow", the perpetually clueless newbie who has no idea what kind of world he got into yet never learns and adapt to the situation no matter how long he's into it.
Powered armour completely negates any form of impact and suspends inertia.
Archers keeping somebody under shot, holding their bows drawn for extended periods of time without so much as flinching.
Two knights in full plate armour trying to kill each other with regular swords, whereas in real life they needed maces, two-handed warhammers and poleaxes to do some damage.
The hero who effortlessly skewers somebody in full armour with a nearly blunt weapon.
Ancient and medieval weapons redesigned to make them look weird and exotic and renders them completely useless in real life.
Period pieces where everybody is ostentatiously lighting up to remind us that this is the "olden days" where people, children and pets smoked like chimneys.
Remakes or adaptations where characters are reversed to make them more "modern, edgy and interesting", but end up being complete ******** and jerks.
Nobody is a decent, well-meaning human being any more, all "heroes" start off as growling, misanthropic jerks with a dark tragic past drowning in an ocean of blood and pathos, but are usually coaxed and goaded into doing the right thing by the female protagonist/love interest.
The old "wise one" who talks in convoluted riddles and never provides a straight informative answer, yet nobody has a problem with that.
The villain of the story is horribly cursed, giving him incredible supernatural powers often at little or no actual cost.
The female "one shot, one kill" type sniper/archer/assassin.
The WWII British officer who tells an American something has to be done by the book, is prohibited or is impossible and ends up killing a bunch of good GI's, so that the Americans have to throw out the book and do it their way.
Soldiers who discard their helmets as soon as the fight starts because the audience might get confused. Ditto for period films where any form of hat is banned.
French people who are either intellectuals with refined tastes or complete country bumpkins with a moustache and a beret.
Trying to pass off a Czech 16th century early baroque building for a 12th century English or French court.
Fantasy films where the stakes are never anything less than saving the entire world from oblivion.
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Riceball
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Especially any times there's a hand grenade, they almost always explode with a big fireball even though they kill mainly through fragmentation and not explosive force.
Riceball
Master Member
This may have been mentioned, but large space explosions that give off a ring of something. Energy I guess, I don't know. I think it started with one of the Star Wars revisions when the Death Star exploded. Now you see it all the time. This is a sub-branch of fiery explosions because they usually include something burning, which it shouldn't.
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